[Fedora-packaging] [Draft] The use of alternatives

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 14 April 2009 at 19:09, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Tuesday, 07 April 2009 at 23:06, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 22:51 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > > 
> > > The UsingAlternatives draft[1] should now be ready for voting at the next
> > > meeting. I've just made some finishing touches. I'd like to include
> > > it in the agenda for the next FPC meeting.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > R.
> > > 
> > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/UsingAlternatives
> > 
> > 
> > Maybe add a note about cases where the use of alternatives is NOT
> > recommended and environment-modules should be used instead, e.g. MPI
> > environments and so on. [Generally cases where multiple versions and
> > variants that offer different functionality need to be useable at the
> > same time.]
> 
> Done. Sorry it took so long.

... although I couldn't actually mention environment-modules in the guideline
because their use is not documented in the Packaging Guidelines. Would you
be willing to write up a guideline with some examples, Jussi?

Regards,
R.

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